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A €290m Italian government scheme, designed to remind young people of the value of culture, will enable them to buy books, tickets for concerts, theatre and the cinema, museum visits and trips to national parks.

Regeneration plans for London will see a warehouse that is home to more than 100 artists demolished to make way for a pedestrian bridge into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

The plans would see a permanent 400-seat auditorium built at the historic house near Market Harborough to replace a temporary theatre, which is currently home to the Nevill Holt Opera Festival.

A former city college in Inverness will be converted into a mix of studio space and housing in a joint venture between the council, an artists’ studio provider and a retirement home developer.

Bectu is urging workers to speak up about exploitation and poor working conditions, following the launch of a ‘whistleblowing’ website documenting alleged exploitation during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

A Memorandum of Understanding between the two festivals will lead to creative, business and community collaborations, and co-commissioned major works will be premiered in the two cities.

London's Palace Theatre is refusing entry to anyone who has knowingly bought a ticket from a tout. Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender stressed the importance of accessible pricing and condemned the secondary ticket market as “an industry-wide plague”.

The 140-seat arts centre is hoping to build a 400-seat auditorium to fill the gap left by the closure of the town’s Civic Centre venue in 2010.